Re: I/o instruction

From: Danny (NOSPAMFORdaniel_ahorn_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:27:28 GMT

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:00:04 -0700
Name: "Dick Grier" <dick_grierNOSPAM@msn.com>

>Hi,
>
>Serial: MSComm32.ocx (or NETComm.ocx from my homepage), or the equivalent.
>
>Parallel: IOocx.ocx, also from my homepage. Free.
>
>***

Hi,

On a tangent, do you have any pointers for trying to talk to USB
devices?

I don't have any one specific device in mind but, generally, wish to
enumerate what's hanging off of the USB bus and then simply send and
receive bytes to and from those devices.

Sort of, what MSComm does for serial. It doesn't know (or care) what
it is talking to (modems, printers, etc) but it handles low level
access and leaves the high level stuff (specific, device-dependent
commands) to the application.

This is a pet project of mine which I do in spare time. It's also a
learning exercise so I'm not really after a canned solution as such
but more after code examples and fundamental principles.

Danny

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